"woah! singaporeans are so rich! look at the way they dress! look at those branded bags! look at the cars!"

to hell with all those please! in actual fact, there are many out there who are jobless, just like

yours truly.

-vera shaw.


went job-hunting with sabrina, vera, jasmine and hui juan at orchard yesterday.

met sabrina and jasmine at choa chu kang mrt station then we took 190 down to orchard. slept on the way cause we were damn tired. then met vera and hui juan at orchard MRT station at 9.15 and walked over to shaw center for our first job interview at trust media. vera looked like she was going shopping can! hui juan's belt is nice. (:

at first we didnt know where shaw center was cause we only heard of shaw building/ tower cant remember. the shaw building for movies. then vera shaw, this being her grandfather's "territory" showed us, and we found out that shaw center was the small building beside the shaw tower. -.-

the job was to do outdoor surveying- go out on the streets and ask people to sign up for this lucky draw thing. every coupon with all correct particulars is 3 bucks and every call is an additional 20. the money was good, but not easy though. we didnt get the job either, since there was no phone call today.

got played out by some other surveyor guy. asked us to meet at capitol tower at city hall, but there's no capitol tower in city hall! there's only capitol building and capitol center in city hall and capitol tower is heard to be in tiong bahru or tanjong pagar. thanks arh. tried calling the guy then he said he was in a hospital. ?!?!?!?!

went to eat lunch. or what vera calls it, "budget lunch" at this ulu ulu roadside stall. the food's not really good. dont ever go there.

then went to this blendinn cafe opposite paradiz center for the next job interview. some indian guy handed us there application forms which was from some "healthwise" company and we had to fill in our family members particulars-something which we did not quite like about.

vera: wahlao, im not very interested. things dealing with health, nobody will dare to buy if we promote please. and im not comfortable filling in family members contacts.

jasmine: ya lor, somemore we're 15

looked around the whole cafe. looked damn ulu and we were like "who the hell holds interviews in a cafe?"

we decided to hear what they had to say.

guy: ni men tian shen tian yang de ah? ( you all drop down from the sky ah? )
us: ???
guy: where's your family members contact?
jasmine: we dont feel comfortable putting it down first
vera: can you like briefly tell us what we have to do first before we fill in our family members contacts?
guy: like that im not comfortable in interviewing you all also. this is an interview, and you are not treating it seriously! if you want the interview to go on, go out and fill the form, if you dont want it, the door is there.

thanks but no thanks. we're not so desperate for a job until we have to resort to dealing with the unknown.

so we walked out and started tearing out application forms into shreds and crushing them into a ball.

eh. my hand so high up. -.-

walked to plaza sing and sabrina felt very tired. so she went home and jasmine, hui juan, vera and i decided to walk down orchard to look for jobs.

met this fuhua secondary 3 guy near plaza sing called ng kok woon (if vera remembers it correctly,) he's like damn nice please. he actually approached us to ask for donations to this cancer foundation thing and we were like no job= no money. how to donate! ):

him: you guys going orchard to shop right! can shop that means got money. please donate!

hui juan: er no we're going orchard to look for job! we're JOBLESS!

him: eh bluff people one right!

jasmine: no really! how much are you getting to ask for donations? we dont mind doing your job. you can go and get some kopi.

him: im doing this for CIP. please donate lah.

vera: we're jobless!

him: haiya. cannot be no job one lah. so easy to find. read classified lah! my friend just got a job at orchard tower like 2 days ago. can go there and try. i think sure get in one, cause everyday they fire people.

us: er wow. where are you working at?

him: expo.

us: orh...

him: aiyah. girls very easy to find job one lah. you guys all so pretty sure can find job one lah. go be waitress lah! i want to be waiter also cannot.

jasmine: no lorh. boys easier to find job. if not why you got job but we're jobless?

him: sure can find one lah. you walk down orchard maybe can find. and you guys so pretty some more! see that girl! -points to some girl near starbucks- so ugly! if you're the employer would you employ her! see! she walk to that guy then that guy run away. dont walk like her!

me: ooi. dont be so bad leh.

they: hahahahaha.

him: haiyo. you guys got newspaper? i help you'all find lah.

so we went to the nearby 7-eleven store and got a newspaper. then we sat down and started looking through classified. called some but got no response.

left to right: hui juan. vera, jasmine. looking through newspapers. waliao we look damn pathetic please. vera says we look damn classic.

kokwoon: can find or not. flip to the waitress section and find lah. sure can find one. look! -points to a girl crying on the next bench- aiyoh breakup liao so sad.

-.- then when he walked away.

vera: -whispers- eh i also think she breakup leh.

omg. diao.

then walked to orchard robinsons, john little, taka, OG, and many many places trying to look for a JOB. saw these group of people dressed as santa clauses and santarinas. then we were like "OH MY GOD WE WANT THEIR JOB!" it's super easy lah please. just go around dressed in santarinas holding this big card or pushing a trolley or carrying baskets. i really felt like going up to them and saying "dear santa, CAN YOU PLEASE GIVE ME YOUR JOB?" rawrrr.

vera: some more we look prettier and younger than them lah. WHY WE GOT NO JOB!?!?!!?

went to paragon's toy's r us and applied for job, but we didnt think we'll get it. cause we just filled in the application form and gave it to them and they just said: "if there's anything, we'll call you."

apparently, there's NOTHING. -.-

went taka and asked this gift-wrapping guy if there's any job vacancies.

him: "oh you go to tower A level 10 the human resource department and ask for job. that's how i got my job too."

then we asked him how did he get to know of this.

him: "oh. through friends."

in the end we went up and the department was already closed. ):

we went to orchard cineleisure in the end where jasmine and hui juan went to the kopitiam to eat ICE KACHANG. o.O vera and i were resisting the URGE and TEMPTATIONS to eat shilin but it's like we didnt get a job, and if we spend money, we'll feel the guilt you know.

qoutes vera:

vera: i still cant get it. why is it that most people who finds jobs are ahlians and ahbengs? but people like us just cant seem to get a decent job?!

siewying: we're book smart. theyre just street smart

we were asking alot of them how they knew of the jobs and everybody replied
" thru friends"

why ah.. why is it that most students from non-elite schools have friends with this kinda job contacts and students like us have no friends with this kinda job contacts.

huijuan: wahlao, we know alot of big shot's daughters what but why still so useless?

vera: cause polytechnics attached their students to those big shots's established companies to learn the ropes.

and thanks lah vera. she went home with a bowl of bird's nest soup waiting for her.

i went home and got scolded by my mum for not getting a job. -.-

today had jason's.

headed down to the center at 2, which was rather late cause my dad had a flight to catch at 3. walked in and the first thing jason said was:

"oooiiii. CID just checked me so i have to check you. DID YOU FINISH YOUR HOMEWORK?"

thanks mum. thanks for telling jason that i have not enough homework to keep me busy. thanks for telling him that there's not band fot the next 2 weeks so he should give me more homework. thanks for telling him thet YOU THINK i havent been doing my homework.

in actual fact, i have. i've only been doing at at 1 a.m. in the morning so you dont know.

CANT YOU SEE THE EYEBAGS UNDER MY EYES?!!?!?!

i guess you cant.

but anyway, jason was like: "haiyo why you dont do your homework in front of your mother one! no wonder she dont know what you've been doing. does she even see your homework or all those files?"

me: "nope."

jason: "do you know that your every week's homework is actually the thickness of one thick book? and your mum says it's not enough?"

me: "dunno."

benjamin: "QUICK! GIVE HER SOMEMORE HOMEWORK!"

-.- thanks benjamin. THANK YOU SO MUCH. dont you think i should just kick you to thank you?

jason went on on how my mum was being you know, herself. then i dont know what he was talking talking then suddenly he asked if we got out keyring for our toilet keys. this fat sec 1 guy went: "jason! you know i got 3 keys?????"

jason: "HUH? why you got 3 keys???? you got them now?"

boy: "eh no. they're at home."

-.-

-jason passes keyrings to naomi and her sister-

benjamin: "ahh. let's see how long they take to figure out how to use it. i took less than 10 seconds."

-the sisters figured it out after awhile.-

jason: "uh there you see! they're not as stupid as you think they are ok!"

-naomi kicks the table accidentally-

jason: "ahh benjamin you see! you make naomi excited until she start kicking the table."

benjamin: "HUH?! what did i do?"

jason: "besides you there's only me and this sec 1 boy lorh. and you know we have one thing in common. so we cant be the one making her excited right?"

benjamin: "what do you have in common? LIPIDS?"

omg. DIAO.

sec 1 boy: "eeeh my wallet got alot of keys leh. for the key to my house, then the key to the letterbox then the key to-"

jason: "HAIYO HOW MANY TOILET KEYS DO YOU HAVE LAH."

boy: "THREE! i say just now already!"

jason: -.-"can you PLEASE bring all the 3 keys back next week?"

boy: "why? change key arh."

benjamin: "no. the keys are the same. he just wants it back."

-jason passes the boy the keyring-

benjamin: "ahhh now let's see how long you take to figure it out"

-boy strokes the keyring-

jason: "CAN YOU PLEASE STOP STROKING THE THING?"

boy: "will it rust?"

benjamin: "no, it's stainless steel."

jason !!!!!!! "I DIDNT SAY THAT. haha. i didnt say that."

benjamin: "it is! i tried soaking it in the water and it didnt rust. so it's stainless steel."

jason: ?!?!!? "you actually did that?"

boy: "what if you soak it in salt water?"

benjamin: "it wont work lah."

jason: -bangs his head onto the table- WHY ALL MY STUDENTS ALL SO STUPID ONE?!?!?!!?!

was damn tired during tuition. i went toilet and could see my eyebags in the mirror lah. it's like really really bad. ):

jason's nice! he photocopied a set of notes for me to read.

me: "eh. one chapter only arh."

jason: "ya lah! so much homework already still want somemore meh? and hor. can you please use this set of notes and pretend to read infront of your mum?"

me: ?!?!!

benjamin: "ahh. see! she wants more homework. give her more!"

-.-

that's all. im off to bed. DEAD TIRED.

S.H.E.
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